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Friday, July 4, 2014

UN seeks to calm Ebola fears in W.Africa

Accra (AFP) - The United Nations reassured west Africa on Wednesday that the world's deadliest-ever Ebola epidemic could be stopped in its tracks, telling the region's health ministers: "We can handle this."
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"These kinds of outbreaks, these diseases, can be stopped," Keiji Fukuda, assistant director-general for health security at the WHO, told AFP, as 11 west African health ministers gathered for a two-day conference in Accra on combatting the killer pathogen.
"This is not a unique situation -- we have faced it many times -- so I'm quite confident that we can handle this.
"This is, however, the most complicated Ebola outbreak ever because it is spreading so fast in both urban and rural areas."...
.. Despite the efforts of the UN agency and other health workers, there has been a "significant increase" in the rate of new cases and deaths in recent weeks, the organisation added...  http://news.yahoo.com/w-african-nations-crisis-talks-ebola-spreads-040642690.html